Hello,
It's a relatively well-known fact that GHC allows for multiple type
class instances for the same type to coexist in a single program. This
can be used, for example, to construct values of the type Data.Set.Set
that violate the data structure invariant. I was mildly surprised to
find out that this works even when Safe Haskell is turned on:
https://gist.github.com/3854294
Note that the warnings tell us that both instances are "[safe]" which
gives a false sense of security.
I couldn't find anything on the interplay between orphan instances and
Safe Haskell both in the Haskell'12 paper and online. Is this
something that the authors of Safe Haskell are aware of/are intending
to fix?
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